Daniel Pick remembers Eric Hobsbawm, who died on Monday 1st October 2012
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Radical Objects: John Lilburne and John Wilkes
This political tract ‘The Tryal of Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn’ links indelibly two of the most commanding figures in English radicalism, both of whom won key legal victories against the executive and so helped to establish greater freedom to publish and propagandise
Radical Objects: Greetings & Goodwill Messages from Anglo-Jewry to Soviet Jewry
A book published in 1944 with the aim to solicit donations to the Jewish Fund for Soviet Russia, and to place on record the admiration of the authors for the heroic efforts of the Soviet forces in the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe
Soviet Yiddish Writers: From Revolution to Repression
The thirty years between the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s destruction of Yiddish culture produced some of the best writing in Yiddish, little of which has been translated into English.
Workers’ Dignity & Resistance: Miners & Capitalism in Spain
In the wake of the two-month strike against pit closures by Spanish miners, Gregorio Alonso reflects on the history and contemporary significance of industrial and political struggle in the country’s mines
Radical Objects: Our HAP T-Shirt
A t-shirt created by a group of young people from the Brighton Peace & Environment Centre, who attended the Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in May, 1999
The Modern Olympics and the Triumph of Capitalist Sport
As the world turns its attention to London for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, it is worth remembering that the modern Olympics represent the ultimate triumph of capitalist sport and not just about the “ideals” that are presented to the global audience
